From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan L Tyree Subject: Index of cases Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:07:00 +1000 Message-ID: <522BB194.7060705@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIRaU-0001dB-Ea for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:06:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIRaP-0005sm-Ie for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:06:42 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22b]:58635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIRaP-0005si-As for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:06:37 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id md4so4608184pbc.2 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:06:36 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org G'day, I am the author of a legal text of about 700 pages. I currently have the book in LaTeX using the memoir class. A couple of macros define special indexes for a Table of Cases and a Table of Statutes. I would like to move the whole thing to Org to make it easier for my editors who can be easily alarmed by the LaTeX markup. The LaTeX is overkill since I submit the manuscript to the publisher in a Word file. Is there a standard way to get, say, the table of cases? A typical "case" looks like this: Howell v Coupland (1874) LR 9 QB 462; (1876) 1 QBD 258 The Table of Cases needs to indicate where in the text the case is mentioned; reference to section numbers is OK. So, for example, in the Table of Cases, the above case appears as: Howell v Coupland (1874) LR 9 QB 462; (1876) 1 QBD 258 [15.16] [15.25] Presuming there is not a "standard", I have considered the following procedure: - maintain a list of cases as I write; I already do this to ensure consistent citation of cases; - use links from the list of cases back into the manuscript to index the places where each case is mentioned in the text. Does this seem like a reasonable approach, or is there some obviously better way? I am an extreme novice at elisp but can handle some simple jobs. Any advice greatly appreciated. Cheers, Alan Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:typhoon@iptel.org